Jakob Ingebrigtsen – Hurt for Jakob

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JAKOB INGEBRIGTSEN no longer need to run to gain international attention. In recent years, the star status in the biggest athletics nations has increased so much, that it is fitting that he speaks:

– He’s a God-send to a sport that isn’t exactly overloaded with characterswrote The Times ironically this winter.

Then this British major newspaper had made the trip to Jakob’s home in Sandnes just to talk to the persistently young Norwegian runner who, in the last five years, has turned the world upside down in international middle and long distance.

Because it was Jakob who broke the African dominance in both the 1500 and 5000 metres. And that with a natural self-confidence that arouses attention even among the most seasoned international sports reporters.

When the reporter from The Times asked Jakob who was the best middle- and long-distance runner of all time, the answer came quickly:

– He is not crowned yetsaid the Norwegian, and believed that the list of candidates with names like Eliud Kipchoge, Kenenisa Bekele and Haile Gebrselassie is actually quite short.

Jakob was just as firm when The Times followed up by asking what it would take for the story to be the best him :

– Five or six Olympic golds are enough to be better than everyone else at the various distances. That had stopped any discussionIngebrigtsen replied and added:

– The aim is that something like this should never be discussed again.

MORE it is hardly possible for a runner who, despite all his triumphs, has also lost a couple of gold medals in international championships because he has been sprinted down, to be confident in himself. At the latest in the last WC, the victory in the 1500 meters in the last long distance went to Scottish Josh Kerr.

Annoying of course, but nothing that shakes the certainty that he himself is the best anyway. Jakob was sick in that WC final.

That is why he does not bother to let The Times interview be about what he perceives to be a coincidence. This Brit is no real rival at all:

– From 2017, I have had ten, twelve so-called “rivals”. They come and go. It is easier for them to see a rival in me than for me to regard them as rivalsIngebrigtsen explained to The Times, adding that the competitors thus become irrelevant to him:

– The stupidest thing is that people like Kerr get attention. That is what he seeks. He lacks something in himself that he looks for in others. I’m not the type to like that.

Reveals grip: – Bothers me

SO This interview takes an interesting turn. Precisely because Jakob Ingebrigtsen is so concentrated on his own development and all that he self can control, he is equally honest about it only who can stop him. What is painful for the runner who is actually tougher and faster than all the others when two or three laps are passed:

• That the fraud in athletics is allowed to continue.

This Norwegian running wonder has been chasing the shadows of this fraud ever since he established himself as the absolute best.

The runner who i every competition set the standard for what was to happen.

Is in questionable company

IT electric shining hare along the list of insiders who have followed Jakob Ingebrigtsen on all record attempts in recent years, is hardly true.

He chases false records; sat with very bad shoes and on rougher surfaces, but with drugs that were never revealed.

And now Jakob Ingebrigtsen has a sneaking feeling that it could happen again.

– A bad idea

THE hurts a runner who most of all will go down as the greatest of all time. Will the fraud destroy it in the future as well.

When The Times published this interview almost two months ago, it was precisely the Norwegian’s doping accusations that attracted the most attention:

– I think doping is worse now than ten years ago sinceJakob said knowing that he could not prove what he felt:

– The problem now is that we are seeing fewer positive tests, and that worries me. It is a sign that people are getting smarter and that the testing may not reveal enoughcontinued Jakob Ingebrigtsen, and believed that this development was shown by the fact that many of the sentences for the top runners now concern violations of the reporting obligation.

In other words, the stars who have to be part of the so-called ADAMS system deceive the doping hunters by hiding the truth about their whereabouts. That way they can be exposed twice each year without to be punished:

– If you know what you are doing, this is the smartest way to cheat, he added.

Reveals Jacob’s rivals

THE ALLEGATION was strongly countered by Witold Banka, the head of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), who recalled that the good development in testing methods and the increased cooperation with the national prosecution authorities made the net tighter than before.

That is correct. In addition, athletics’ own control system with an independent doping hunt has also become much more credible in this period.

Nevertheless, Jakob Ingebrigtsen has an obvious point. There are still no international statistics on violations of the reporting obligationdespite common experience that more people take the chance of two yellow cards to hide their fraud.

Only with the third breach of the obligation to report does this really have any consequences. This means that Jakob is not only badly pressured by records that should have been deleted on suspicion of athletics’ dark doping past.

The present tense is also doubtful.

IT strong sprinter Mohamed Katir; one of Jakob’s many competitors, was banned last winter for breaching this reporting obligation. A couple of weeks later, his Spanish teammate Quassim Oumaiz disappeared after revelations about the use of growth hormone. Both had been among the strongest in the 5,000 meters at the Olympics in Paris.

When possible rivals fall so close, even the most confident can doubt what is really going on in the field behind him.

Not least in a sport that refuses to come to terms with its old doping records, and still allows the light hares to run wild.

Fortunately, the EC has become so bad that a 17-year-old can win an adult gold

Jakob’s competitor taken